The Southern Cross Expedition, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic...
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mainland. This achievement helped him to obtain backing for his Southern Cross expedition, which became the first to overwinter on the Antarctic mainland...
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as part of Robotech Southern Cross Expedition 1898–1900, an expedition to Antarctica led by Carsten Borchgrevink Southern Cross News, the name of several...
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North" expedition, 1893–96. Pollux was sold to the Norwegian explorer Carsten Borchgrevink in 1897 and renamed Southern Cross, for the Southern Cross Expedition...
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Antarctic Expedition may refer to: British Antarctic Expedition 1898–1900, also known as the Southern Cross Expedition British Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04...
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list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized...
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Antarctic gateway cities (category Geography of the Southern Ocean)
the most notable Heroic Age expeditions first traveled through them, beginning with the British Southern Cross Expedition in 1898. Though the cities operated...
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Per Savio (section Southern Cross expedition)
Norwegian polar explorer and dog sled driver. As a member of the Southern Cross expedition 1898–1900, Savio together with Ole Must were the first to overnight...
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Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (category Antarctic expeditions)
surgeon on the Southern Cross Expedition, 1898–1900, died of unrecorded causes during 1900. Jorgen Petersen, first mate on the Southern Cross, died in 1900...
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area of the Antarctic continent (publicly denied as a goal before the expedition ended); Determining the feasibility of establishing, maintaining, and...
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Louis Bernacchi (category Recipients of the Navy Cross (United States))
Carstens Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition (1898–1900) which wintered at Cape Adare, Antarctica, joining the expedition in Christchurch, New Zealand...
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Swabia Expedition left Hamburg for Antarctica aboard MS Schwabenland (a freighter built in 1925 and renamed in 1934 after the Swabia region in southern Germany)...
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choosing to portage over Banks Island. Members of the Franklin expedition crossed the southern shore of King William Island and made it onto the Canadian...
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as the Southern Cross Expedition, after the expedition's ship name. Most of the staff were Norwegian, but the funds for the expedition were British, provided...
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murdered by mutineering expedition members 1725–1730: Vitus Bering leads the First Kamchatka expedition 1728: Claus Paarss attempts to cross Greenland's interior...
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Operation Deep Freeze (category Antarctic expeditions)
S. Naval expedition into Antarctic waters. In 1929, Admiral Richard E. Byrd established a naval base at Little America I, led an expedition to explore...
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History of Antarctica (section Sealing expeditions)
the first expedition to overwinter within the Antarctic Circle, and they visited the South Shetland Islands. The Southern Cross Expedition began in 1898...
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Nicolai Hanson (category Antarctic expedition deaths)
zoologist and Antarctic explorer. Nicolai Hanson was a member of the Southern Cross Expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink to Antarctica and he became the first...
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participated in that landing, took his own expedition to the region, in the Southern Cross. This expedition was financed by a donation of £35,000 from...
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250 mi), in 1928. The Southern Cross began life as the Detroiter, a polar exploration aircraft of the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic expedition. The aircraft had...
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The British Graham Land expedition (BGLE) was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 and 1937. Under the leadership...
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Farthest South (section Garcia de Nodal expedition)
hostile and dismissive of Borchgrevink. On 23 August 1898 the expedition ship Southern Cross left London for the Ross Sea, reaching Cape Adare on 17 February...
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First Mass in the Philippines (category Magellan expedition)
It was conducted by Father Pedro de Valderrama of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition along the shores of what was referred to in the journals of Antonio Pigafetta...
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ornithological specimens. The expedition arrived back in England on 4 September 1843, having confirmed the existence of the southern continent and charted a...
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The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...
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January 23 – The British Southern Cross Expedition crosses the Antarctic Circle. July 31 – The Southern Cross Expedition and explorer Carsten Borchgrevink...
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for British protection of Kuwaiti territory. The British Southern Cross Expedition crosses the Antarctic Circle. January 24 – The Philadelphia College...
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maximum depth of the Southern Ocean, using the definition that it lies south of 60th parallel, was surveyed by the Five Deeps Expedition in early February...
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Crux (redirect from Southern cross)
of the southern sky that is centred on four bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism commonly known as the Southern Cross. It lies on the southern end of...
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Southern Cross is a town in Western Australia, 371 kilometres (230.5 miles) east of state capital Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. It was founded in...
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